Easy. Deep inside he wanted Luke to get away. Hence the whole redemption thing at the end of the third movie.

Also easy. He's not "required to passively watch while the Emperor murders all his friends and crushes the Rebellion". The emperor just totally psyched him out into believing it. You know, weak minds and all that.

Um. Hold on, I'll think of something ...

OK, got it. Obi Wan is the stronger Jedi, mentally, and used this power to (mostly) block his presence from Vader.

i took a geology course at a major public university in Texas. the first week of class, they gave us a "quiz" which consisted of a map of the US and the instructions were "name each state in the US". the lowest score was 5 -- we figured they got Texas, florida, hawaii, alaska and one other

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I was sitting around talking with a few friends, and someone suggested we see if we could fill in a blank US map in 5 minutes. Have you ever tried it? Its harder than you'd think. None of us finished. What was weird was that afterward the challenger would name a state and most of us could point it out on the blank map accurately. It was just the combination of coming up with the name AND location ourselves that lead to a lot of second guessing which ultimately ran out the clock. It was pretty shaming actually. Like, wow, I've been a total moron this whole tome and I never knew it.

mulpis wrote:I was sitting around talking with a few friends, and someone suggested we see if we could fill in a blank US map in 5 minutes. Have you ever tried it? Its harder than you'd think. None of us finished. What was weird was that afterward the challenger would name a state and most of us could point it out on the blank map accurately. It was just the combination of coming up with the name AND location ourselves that lead to a lot of second guessing which ultimately ran out the clock. It was pretty shaming actually. Like, wow, I've been a total moron this whole tome and I never knew it.

My mom sent me an e-mail where is was a blank outline and you have to put them in place at random...and it judged how far off you were in miles, on average. I think I was somewhere between 10-20 miles off the first time and 20-30 the second. I think it depends on which states come first.....let's do some looking and....Place The States.

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mulpis wrote:I was sitting around talking with a few friends, and someone suggested we see if we could fill in a blank US map in 5 minutes. Have you ever tried it? Its harder than you'd think. None of us finished. What was weird was that afterward the challenger would name a state and most of us could point it out on the blank map accurately. It was just the combination of coming up with the name AND location ourselves that lead to a lot of second guessing which ultimately ran out the clock. It was pretty shaming actually. Like, wow, I've been a total moron this whole tome and I never knew it.

My mom sent me an e-mail where is was a blank outline and you have to put them in place at random...and it judged how far off you were in miles, on average. I think I was somewhere between 10-20 miles off the first time and 20-30 the second. I think it depends on which states come first.....let's do some looking and....Place The States.

I got 88% with an average error of 27 miles in 227 secs. For someone who's terrible at geography, I will consider this an acceptable score.

I got 88% with similar time and 20 miles avg, and I somehow misclicked nowhere near my own state which skewed that. I found it easier than if I had to do each state individually without the other states being there after placing them.

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78%, 88 miles, 313 seconds. I only got a couple of them in totally the wrong place! I think it would be more interesting if the map stayed blank rather than narrowing down the options to make it really easy after the first few.